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No, I agree, but you specifically mentioned "science-fiction" in the second post, and implicitly denied even their existence in the first post. I think there's a reasonable distanc…

The Be would be inside the (radioactive) reactor vessel, which already has extremely strict isolation requirements. I believe it's accessed and maintained with robotics. As for the…

I'm not sure I understand what's 'science-fiction' about lead or beryllium?

> you would need 100% efficiency to be able to breed your own tritium How so? As I understand it, the breeding reaction is exothermic (Li-6 + n -> He-4 + T) so all you need are neu…

Three years in, and it's working great. We're different people with different work styles, but get the job done with tons of respect on both sides. The only difference is that the …

Emphasis not just in the narrow sense of showing intense emotion, but rather the general concept of giving a sentence rhythm and prosody, often to highlight a wry or ironic situati…

It is a stylistic device that serves as a sort of emphasis. Rhetorically censoring all or part calls attention to it as profanity. You hear an analogous effect used a lot in spoken…

Can you elaborate on how I and a good number of the people I know cannot remain healthy? I have to say, I feel pretty fine.

Are you thinking just of roundabouts that include a raised middle and/or central reservations on approaching roads? In general, roundabouts need no more space and cost than a regul…

These questions are tackled in most basic primers that should show up in a google search such as you suggest. E.g.: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/25733/interactive... …

I dimly remember trying this five years ago and it being a bit of a mess. IIRC it was that date picker widgets in browsers presented in a different format to what the Accept-Langua…

While skin-in-the-game is a good tool for problems of this general class, the editor has said that refundable fees would not be workable in this particular case due to issues with …

As someone that enjoys trying to make up inversions on the spot, and laments that chord charts only ever seem to acknowledge open chords and E/A-shape barres, that command line too…

There's a great and very comprehensive chart by "Our World in Data" about the breakdown of emissions / environmental impact for different foods: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/…

These are all excellent points—thank you for clarifying some of the parts I hadn't considered. In terms of the last and how practical it is, we're more-or-less saying the same thin…

> you will always need at least a small fission reactor to breed some tritium The idea for future designs is to breed Tritium in the blanket surrounding the vessel. This obviates t…

Personal anecdote, but since Ogham has been available in Unicode, I've seen the odd person start being interested in it to write out names, exclamations, etc. It feels like a small…

Just a note that you've framed the question as "without JS turned on" but it's not always a choice; there are people who don't have access to sufficiently new hardware or reliable …

Someone made a fantastic fan "movie" poster a while ago that's stuck in my head ever since: https://existentialterror.tumblr.com/post/611166753441169408...

This question seems to be becoming more popular lately. My own understanding is that most people are apprehensive about killing because it involves denying another being self-actua…

This is a ridiculous straw-man take and you know it. Please aim for helpful discussion instead of empty sarcasm.

Apologies if my earlier post came off as peevish. I would not want your comment to be removed, and to my mind there is nothing sexist about it. I am just constantly surprised that,…

I'm surprised an assertion this strong with zero attestation and the hint of pseudoscientificism is still alive on HN. Anyone living through the 00s (and perhaps even still today) …

One thing I don't understand about what this page seems to suggest: shouldn't there be a bright ring of starlight at some non-zero angle away from dead ahead? Given a finite collec…

> I can eat less meat It's something I keep quiet about in day-to-day life since it seems to invite reprisal, but if we're soul-searching for what we as individuals can do, I beg y…